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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of profits made by companies registered here in 2011; and the total amount of tax paid and to break down the profits and tax paid into bands starting from €0 to €100,000, €100,000 to €500,000, €500,000 to €1 million, €1 million to €5 million, €5 million to €20 million, €20...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (16 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that pay tax in each of the corporate tax brackets; the amount of profits they declare; the amount of tax they pay and the average effective tax rate in tabular form. [44305/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Airports (16 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of security for Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44914/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (16 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of Irish Army participation in the war in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44915/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Protection Issues (16 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health in the interests of protecting vulnerable children, if he will make the necessary funds available to an organisation (details supplied) in County Dublin so that it will not have to reduce its service to the 140 families [44307/12]

Other Questions: Broadcasting Legislation (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean we will not reach my Question No. 9?

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is onwards and upwards for the United Left Alliance.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much of that is debt interest?

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much of the total is debt interest?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That e-mail has nothing to do with me.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the Government's commitment to what it calls reform of the public service, and particularly of the health services. His use of the word "reform" is beginning to gain Orwellian characteristics in that it seems to mean the very opposite of what it suggests, that is, savage cuts being imposed on front line services and on some of the most vulnerable sectors...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the parents of children with severe intellectual disabilities from our constituency in Dún Laoghaire. They have found out in the past few weeks that respite services provided in Dunmore House, part of Carmona Services, are being slashed. What was previously a 24-7 respite service is proposed to be watered down to a fraction of the service that it previously was such that, for...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the extent of these brutal cuts, what the Tánaiste calls "reform". These result from cuts in funding by the HSE to these services and the public sector recruitment moratorium. Simply, will you tell me and, more important, tell the parents in the Gallery and the others who are users of this service and their children-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that you will reverse these cuts, that these services will not be touched and that you will honour your commitment to protect the most vulnerable in society, particularly vulnerable children and their families?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason I have brought this issue in here is because 16 parents came into my clinic on Monday looking for help. I did not raise the issue; they did. What they want from the Tánaiste is an assurance that these cuts will be reversed - if it is necessary to lift the public sector recruitment embargo in order to provide the services as they have been, that he should do that - and for...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the way, the parents are quite willing to meet the management of Carmona Services, and will meet them. What they need from the Tánaiste and from the Government is a commitment that the staffing and resources will be provided in order to maintain the Angel's Quest 24-7 respite service for these people who desperately need it and whose lives will be devastated if these cuts go ahead....

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the exploratory licence recently granted to a company (details supplied), when the drilling in Dublin Bay is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43741/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (11 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of a possible oil find in Dublin Bay, if his attention has been drawn to the pamphlet, produced by Dublin Shell to Sea Campaign, Liquid assets: Ireland's oil and gas resources and how they can be managed for the people's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43745/12]

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They confirmed it.